Be a Plant Diversity Superhero: Tips and Tricks for Saving Seeds Special Thanks to Native Seeds/SEARCH for permission to use this article. View the original here. At one time, seed saving was a necessity. Gardeners and farmers carefully selected and stored the best seeds from their harvests, ensuring they had seed for planting in subsequent years. The…

Learning the Art of Seed Preservation The Where, Why and How of Storing Your Seeds Plus an Open Forum to Get Your Seed Questions Answered! Register Here for The Art of Seed Preservation In this hour-long webinar we will learn the where & how to store your saved seeds. Learn what Cold, Dark and Dry…

Seeds and Soak in Idaho By Belle Starr It is astounding to think that at the turn of the last century everyone saved their own seeds. Seed saving was part of the fabric of our country. In fact, it was the Patent and Trade Office (ironically) that gave away over 1.2 billion packets of seeds…

The Seed School Edition By Greg Peterson What do we have without seeds? Is a question to ponder, but for not very long as the answer is we have nothing. Seeds are the basis for vegetative life and really all of our food… as in, if we are not eating plants, we are eating animals…

Seeds with a Sense of Place By Belle Starr Prominent in Europe for centuries, the local food movement is at last blossoming in the United States… and just in the nick of time. With so many current health and social issues linked to the industrial foods we eat — diabetes, attention-deficit disorder, autism, celiac disease…

Urban Farm Guides App Available Today for Download By Greg Peterson I’m very excited to announce that our new Urban Farm Guides app was released for iPad and iPhone today. The app gives users access to useful tips and easy-to-use guidelines for learning about urban farming and sustainability. Our current guides include: Basic Seed Saving, Fowl…